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Millions wasted? Billions? How about trillions? It doesn’t matter to a liberal when it’s labeled correctly. Doug Ross takes the trouble to finger the parasites who are bleeding this country dry but won’t face consequences because their looting is for the good of the country/environment.
From the President of the International Union of Projectionists Against America:
Mr. Obama, in an interview with WESH-TV in Orlando, said his administration has been tough on the country’s trading partners and tried to strengthen U.S. manufacturing.
“This is a great great country that had gotten a little soft and we didn’t have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades,” Mr. Obama said in response to a question about the country’s economic future. “We need to get back on track.”
Nothing 99 weeks of unemployment and taxpayer funded payoffs to those svelte union workers can’t fix.
Not to worry when you know Obama’s working his fingers to the cone for you.
You ole softie.
What a difference an election makes. One day war, what is it good for except for inflaming the Arab Street, enriching Halliburton and turning our citizens into bloodthirsty psychopaths. Now these same folks would like you believe that in their black little hearts, patriotism edged out dissent and is once again the highest form of, well, patriotism.
If the upcoming Obama vs. Osama movie, conveniently to be released just before the 2012 elections is a hit, expect the studios to apply the money-making magic ad nauseum.
Not really Strange so much as Creepy/Obsessive
Barry’s Boys Blast bin Laden Baddie
I’m not sure how I’m supposed to feel about this:
Via the NY Post: AFP/Getty Images Phyllis Siegel (rear) and Connie Kopelov (front) celebrate after becoming the first same-sex couple to get married in New York City the day the state's gay marriage law went into effect.
The Big Apple said “I do” to a new era of gay rights this morning and celebrated New York City’s first same-sex weddings.
Chelsea residents Phyllis Siegel, 76, and Connie Kopelov, 84, got hitched at the marriage bureau on Worth Street in Lower Manhattan at 9:02 a.m., setting off wedding bells across Gotham.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who is openly gay, witnessed the ceremony that was officiated by City Clerk Michael McSweeney.
‘‘It was just so amazing,’’ said Siegel, who has been with her love for 23 years. ‘‘It’s the only way I can describe it. I lost my breath and a few tears.’’
More than likely just to piss you off because they’re a completely petty bunch of bitches like that. Also, that they’re petty at such high institutional levels that you can’t ignore them. And that they’re disingenuous shitbirds who think we’re as historically ignorant as they are.
Which is impossible.
In the course of the last week, I’ve gotten TMJ syndrome from how frequently my jaw keeps dropping in response to the number of Leftists who insist that Ronald Reagan was actually a born again, tax and spend, compromising New Dealer. What sayeth these leftwing Revisionists of their new Nicene Creed and the canonization of St. Ronnie? Whatever their talking points memo tells them to because they’re a bunch of braindead cut-and-pasters:
After he switched to the Republican Party in 1962, Ronald Reagan famously quipped: “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.”Now, the Republican Party is doing the same thing to him — and Democrats are happy to take Reagan back….Nobody knows what Reagan, who died in 2004, would make of the current fight over the debt limit. But 100 years after Reagan’s birth, it’s clear that the Tea Party Republicans have little regard for the policies of the president they claim to venerate. Tea Party Republicans call a vote to raise the debt ceiling a threat to their very existence; Reagan presided over 18 increases in the debt ceiling during his presidency.
Tea Party Republicans say they would sooner default on the national debt than raise taxes; Reagan agreed to raise taxes 11 times.
This is a man that they spit on during his funeral who they’re glad to slander with such idiocy now that he can’t refute them.
Nobody knows what Martin Luther King, Jr. would think about the state of race relations today, he died in 1968, but I’m sure he would be glad to lead the KKK in the lynching of Barack Obama from the closest, highest cherry tree. He did like to lead people after all. And he did have trees in his yard. Is that too strained of a comparison of what Commies like Dana Milbank have proffered above?
Or like when Jesus said “I am my brother’s keeper” in response to Rome’s lack of universal health care.
This is the sort of contrarian drivel masquerading as creative and versatile writing that we’ve come to expect from our colleges in the last several decades. Take the truth, subtract all historical context, turn it on it’s head and tell everyone that black is actually white and right couldn’t be more wrong. Like Bill Clinton, the budget balancer – deficit reducer – welfare reformer – surplus providing Saviour.
It’s all mildly amusing were our country not whistling in its economic graveyard the theme song from the decidedly, no-where-close-to-Reaganesque Obama presidency. Part of this, I imagine, is based on an extremely false comparison from leftwing “economist” Brad DeLong whose adherents commandeered a Wikipedia page claiming that Republican Presidents Raise The Debt Ceiling More Than Democrat Presidents.
End of Story from Wikipidiocy, right?
Were that it true that the President is the one who writes and passes the budget. A look at every Republican President shows either a divided House and Senate or total Democrat control of both. So, if you can look beyond the fact that the President is not the one who passes the budget, this argument might appear to be true. Reality and Mr. DeLong have an estranged relationship it seems.
Otherwise, one can surmise that everytime the Democrats control Congress that they spend like drunken sailors with other people’s money. I stole that last line. I don’t remember who said it. Obviously, some self-hating Democrat.
As long as the commies are re-discovering Madman Reagan – who they hated with all their little black hearts and souls – how about you listen to some of his other speeches too?
The Perils of Big Government (On Welfare, Social Security, Eminent Domain abuse, Interference with private business)
Reagan’s 1964 “A Time For Choosing” (Our nation’s enemies, individual liberty)
Or, if you’d really like to cheez their whiz, make them read Reagan’s entire speech on the debt ceiling that they love selectively quoting so often:
My fellow Americans:
There’s good news. The Federal deficit for this year is expected to drop by some 30 percent compared to last year. That could be a whopping $65 billion reduction, and it happened without a tax increase. There’s also some disappointing news. The Congress, once again, has passed a bill that puts me in the position of accepting legislation with which I fundamentally disagree.
The bill would continue the authority of the United States Government to borrow funds which we must do to avoid the default on our obligations. This legislation also includes a so-called fix of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction law, but it really is an attempt to force me eventually either to sign a tax bill or to accept massive cuts in national defense, or both. I would have no problem with signing an extension of the debt limit. But the choice is for the United States to default on its debts for the first time in our 200-year history, or to accept a bill that has been cluttered up. This is yet another example of Congress trying to force my hand, and it’s one more reason why the President needs the lineitem veto to separate the good from the bad.
Unfortunately, Congress consistently brings the Government to the edge of default….
etc., etc., you’ve heard the next paragraph ad nauseum from an ad put out by Democrats browbeating Republicans as saying Reagan like raising taxes and the debt ceiling. Twisting the words of a dead man for an obscenely partisan end to claim he supported something he absolutely did not.
For those who say further responsible spending reductions are not possible, they are wrong. For those who say the only choice is undermining our national security at a time when the United States is close to an agreement with the Soviet Union on reducing nuclear weapons, they are wrong. For those who say more taxes will solve our deficit problem, they are wrong. Every time Congress increases taxes, the deficit does not decrease, spending increases. It’s time for a clear and consistent policy to reduce the Federal budget deficit.
In the weeks ahead, Congress will have the opportunity to meet this commitment. So today, let’s get some things clear. I will not hesitate to use my veto to hold down excess spending, and I will spell out the impact that defense cuts will have on our long-term security interests. You don’t need more taxes to balance the budget. Congress needs the discipline to stop spending more, and that can be done with the passage of a constitutional amendment to balance the budget.
That’s from the same speech that comment threads have been flooding claiming that Reagan supports raising taxes 18 gillion times and the debt ceiling millions more. Because Democrats are liars at their cores.
To us about the words of others. To themselves for what they are.
Admittedly, Tyler Perry looks better in a dress and is more ladylike.
Drudge has been leading with Sheila “I am a Queen” Jackson-Lee’s accusations that Obama is facing unprecedented opposition because of his race and that no other President has faced the kind of disrespect that he has because he’s half-white. *Yawn*
“I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president…has received the kind of attacks and disagreements and inability to work,” Jackson Lee, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said. “Only this one. Read between the lines.”
“I do not understand what I think is the maligning and maliciousness of this president. Why is he different?” the Texas Democrat asked. “In my community that is the question we raise. In the minority community that is a question being raised. Why is this president being treated so disrespectfully?”
“Read between the lines”??? Given the illiteracy of Mrs. Jackson-Lee’s constituency, it’s a bit insensitive to ask them to read anything not in spraypaint or Spanish. But it is instructive to know that she only represents “the minority community”. Of course, whites are a minority in her community but she doesn’t mean to say that she represents them. /read between the lines
This is coming from the Cynthia McKinney of Texas. Elected time and time again from the dregs of Houston’s welfare wards. They elect her for the expressed purposes of keeping her in zebra print moo moos, flowing gold scarfs, and to be a professional bigot representing Houston’s parolees and babymamas.
When it comes to matters of “showing disrespect”, I’m inclined to agree with her. She stands out as one of the most disrespectful members of Congress of all time. To her staff, to her colleagues, to airline attendants, to the American people and to a former President. That’s not a mote in her eye, it’s a lumber yard soaked with gasoline and set ablaze.
A former staffer recalls one revealing episode during the height of the financial crisis in the waning months of the Bush administration. Jackson Lee demanded a meeting with a top Treasury aide, even though she did not sit on any of the committees with jurisdiction over financial matters. As her car pulled up outside the Treasury, Jackson Lee told her driver to park directly outside the door.
Due to the proximity of the Treasury Department’s headquarters to the White House, Secret Service officers told the driver not to park there. After an argument with the agents, who kept telling the driver to back off, Jackson Lee finally emerged from the building.
As the car drove away, a Secret Service van flashed its lights behind them. “Keep driving,” Jackson Lee told her staffer. Ultimately, the driver pulled over in defiance of the boss’s wishes. At this point, Jackson Lee emerged from the car, screaming, “I’m Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee! Who do you think you are?” to a team of Secret Service agents.
Jackson Lee accused the “white” agent at the gate of racism, claiming she wouldn’t have to deal with “this stuff” when Barack Obama became president. She then filed a formal complaint with the Secret Service, which prompted an investigation. A Treasury official later explained that the accusation had been dismissed because the agent in question was Hispanic, not white.
This is but one of dozens of examples. Her deck only has race cards in it. If this woman was any more of a loose cannon, Eric Holder would have already sold her to the Mexican drug cartels to kill border agents. Check out the entire Daily Caller piece from earlier this year. That’s just an excerpt of page 1 of 7 on Hurricane Sheila. Be thankful she failed in her quest to become a judge.
Welcome to your post-racial America, folks.
Want to see what nineteen year olds who have it all figured out and are smarter than you look like? Check out the College Democrat’s self-promotion video.
Ready for the antidote? Watch this:
Settled science. Unsettled. Unsettling. What’s the difference?
Like most of the dozens of people watching milquetoast Minnesotan Tim Pawlenty (the reborn conservative firebrand) on Meet The Depressed this morning, I squirmed a little in watching his explanation to The Fabulous David Gregory as to whether People Being Born Gay Is Settled Science.
Was it ever settled? I didn’t get the memo. Neither did ABC’s 20/20 a few years ago:
It’s a medical mystery, one of the biggest debates of our time: Is there a gene that determines whether you’re gay or straight? Some scientists think so, saying sexual identity is mostly biological. Others say it’s a learned behavior.
Well that sure sounds settled to me! Some say “yes”. Some say “no”. Clear as mud. “One of the biggest debates of our time” that apparently was settled so long ago that you’re a fool not to recite the literature chapter and verse.
Not that kids need science to confirm what they already know. Zach O’Connor, now 18, says he knew he was different from the time he was 5 or 6. Most of his friends were girls, and he once asked his parents for a Barbie Dream House.
Let’s not knock the Barbie Dream House as being gay. Oh, it was pink alright. But under it’s shackled roof, Barbie broke free of the chains of her oppressive patriarch. The Barbie Dream House is about freedom and wealth building not just a potential platform for felching.
Above-ground pools are kind of gay.
Who needs science when you have the feelings of a 5 year old who played with a Barbie doll? Like Global Warming, who needs science to confirm what you already know?
For people who despise religion, they’ve certainly got the blind faith part down.
Without the so-called “Gay Gene”, with the Pink Triangle representing their Holy Trinity, liberals would not be able to divide people into other subsections to pander with promises of tax benefits, employment benefits and lawsuits. They’d be left to explain homosexuality in that unfamiliar territory governed by personal responsibility. Much better to fall back on articles of faith to explain such Pentecostal Trouser-snake handling.
Born This Way: Well, some faiths do like to handle snakes.
Having said all of this, for argument’s sake, let’s say that everyone who is gay is born gay. The lovable, hairy Piltdown Man of Homosexuality – the Gay Gene ™ – has been isolated. Is it not a parent’s prerogative to gene therapy the gayness away? Does it not fall under the flag of Choice ™ for a parent to abort their potentially gay child as you would expect them to for one with Down Syndrome?
With full-throated support, I expect everyone who believes in the Gay Gene and feminists to show principled resolve in condoning parents manipulating their fetus’s gene to eliminate the gayness or aborting the entire next generation of gays if that is their sanctified Right To Choose.
Or, you can embrace your usual jelly-spined logic and demand the government regulate a woman’s womb as a sanctuary city for gay fetuses only. Keep your laws off my body unless it’s providing subsidized housing for a protected species. Governed by your Obamacare sanctioned EPA OB-GYN.
Armed SWAT Team at the ready to escort your gay baby from your neo-Nazi uterus to a neonatal pre-K with the requisite number of racially sensitive dolls and whole milk percentages.
Keep Your Laws On My Body: Save the gay babies from the uterine Auschwitz
An aversion to the self (home). The opposite of Xenophobia.
Explained in detail here.
Remind me again – who was it who didn’t pass a budget for two years prior to her ouster as the Speaker of the House of Representin’?
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will demand a seat in the table for the final talks on the national debt limit, putting a strong liberal voice in the room.
Pelosi and House Democrats were left out of the negotiations between President Obama and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) last year that extended nearly all of the Bush tax rates though 2012.
Pelosi didn’t participate in the final high-level talks over fiscal 2011 spending levels either.
But now she’s demanding her say at a time when many of her House Democratic colleagues are disappointed in Obama’s level of consultation with their caucus.
I’m sorry. I thought the point of budget negotiations was to actually accomplish something. Not to interject “a strong liberal voice” to ensure nothing gets done.
These protestations from the Iron Bitch who locked Republicans out of all discussions during her Reign of Error, capped off with a stroll across the capitol with a super-sized gavel while she laughed and laughed, is so rich that it deserves a tax cut. “A strong liberal voice”, Alzheimer’s what’s the difference?
Me Neither: Remember when Madame House Frau Natasha Pelosovic allowed a "strong conservative voice" in healthcare negotiations?
Or, perhaps we should just pass the new budget so she can find out what’s in it. Or, just “deem it” to have passed without even having to vote on it.
Here you go, Ma’am. I found a chair that’s just about your speed. Try not to bang it too loudly.
Code Pink approved
Now I realize that picture is a bit insensitive and probably violating ADA standards given Great-Grandmother Pelosivic’s disabilities. Should budget negotiations drag on too long, we can make accommodations so that she can still participate without sacrificing her dignity.
Flexing her muscle, Pelosi asked for and got a meeting with Obama on Thursday morning to discuss the next phase in the negotiations.
At her age, she shouldn’t be flexing so much though I do concede that she knows how to make a stink if she doesn’t get her way.
So your little Republicans-bad-Democrats-good grade school worldview may not be one hundred percent compatible with reality. Don’t worry! You have your defense mechanisms to fall back onto.
Here, let’s play a little mindgame. Consider this fact from Mother Jones(!!)
Oh, and for the upcoming election cycle, here’s a rogue’s gallery of Top 2%’ers who, no doubt, used to frequent the same waiting room as Eliot Spitzer.
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Separated at birth?
Steven Crowder, the conservative humorist who produces great videos for Big Hollywood and The National Center for Public Policy Research, may have gotten his first taste of entertainment industry thuggery.
“I created a video in which I released a private email from a senior producer at the Daily Show in which they said, ‘We never book conservative pundits.’” said Crowder. “Well, it caused quite a stir; enough for Mr. Stewart himself to be upset and for said producer to furiously call my manager… Long story short, [my manager] made it known that he had mouths to feed, and he would have to put some distance between himself and I in order to maintain a viable career.”
Strange that the outrage doesn’t center on the fact that the Daily Show shuns conservative pundits as a matter of policy, but rather that Crowder didn’t shut up about it. I guess Bugsy Lieberman doesn’t like people violating the Code of silence.
If this is new to you, here is the backstory. Crowder, through his manager, was informed by the Daily Show producers that he wasn’t really welcome on the show. Crowder released the private email between his manager and the Daily Show senior producer in this video:
Devo. It took me a while to warm to them. In 1982, I was rocking out to Sammy Hagar and other dirtbag guitar heroes. These guys were playing synth music and doing weird MTV videos. There wasn’t much to like.
It’s open mic night at the sanitarium! Dr. Mothersbaugh will make some brief announcements before Dr. Casale does impressions from the Broadway smash Phantom!
But their music was contagious. Even now, I have at least 10 of their songs in my MP3 library including a real bitchin’ rarity.
Which is why this is disappointing:
Casale: I’m not sure if I have enough perspective to know where that peak was. If I talk to other people that are prone towards musing and theorizing, they think it was earlier than the 20th century that it peaked. We thought it was right after the A-bomb, a last hurrah.
Mothersbaugh: In that the slide towards de-evolution got an extra kick in the pants.
Casale: If you were writing the new Bible, instead of BC and AD, it would be AB, after the bomb.
What do you make of Sarah Palin’s bus tour across America to historic sites?
Casale: Say no more. We rest our case. We’ve often said this, but if somebody in 1980 with a crystal ball had showed you the world in 2011, you would have thought it was a cheap, B-movie sci-fi dystopia that would in fact never happen, and dismissed it. Now it’s here, in all of its horror. You talk about stupid, you can’t beat Sarah Palin!
I can’t say I’m really that disappointed. Ninety-five percent of the music I listen to is performed by unreconstructed lefties.
Do read through this pompous interview and see how they position themselves as above-the-frackas watchers of society. You’d think the might have something more insightful to offer than “Sarah is Stupid.” How are you different than any other entertainment industry boob?
Also gleaned from this article is just how seriously they took themselves and their message.
Mark Mothersbaugh: Waving an American flag during ‘Freedom of Choice’ — we think they’re cheering for one reason, and maybe they were cheering for another reason. Maybe they weren’t cheering for the irony.
Casale: We were wearing Reagan masks.
Mothersbaugh: True.
Casale: We thought that they understood.
Good lord man, you weren’t the reincarnation of Alexis De Toqueville. You had very catchy tunes and musical creativity. Your lyrics were pretty much in line with mainstream pop. Besides, we already had Michael Stipe and Bono covering the deep socio-political crap.
Here is a palate cleanser.
(sirloin tip Big Hollywood headlines)
Here’s a book I would write if I could write.
Subtitle courtesy of the indispensable Dan Collins
Spend any time reading Pandagon (no linkee here*, thank you) and you soon notice that any criticism of Amanda Marcotte is dismissed as code words uttered by sexists. If there is one thing Marcotte isn’t, it’s stupid. But myopic, deluded and so committed to an artificial worldview that centers on her girl parts, pretty much nails it. I guess it follows that any interaction between her world and reality has to pass through her Quixotic war with the Patriarch lenses.
So, buy this book. It will help you avoid the pitfalls of using words like “shrill”, “irrational” and “PMS’y” and empower you with proper terminology!
* Do I really need to link to this thin skinned, myopic and sad person?
Welcome back ladies and gentlemen. We’re about to start the bonus round on It’s Different!
Our contestants are the best of the best from liberal intelligentsia, media and journalism. I’ll pose a series of questions and you choose the best answer.
Let’s begin!
Violent Felon And His Gump Humping Accomplice
In what, unfortunately, is becoming part of a continuing series.
When last we left our listing ship of state, an Iraqi War Vet was intentionally murdered in his home by a SWAT team who wanted no prisoners and has since taken a vow of silence that would make monks envious.
Since then, our beknighted Supreme Court has held that evading our increasingly militarized police force in itself constituting a “violent felony” and the Department of Education (which shouldn’t even exist) has discovered that it has the power to issue warrants for arrest and maintain a standing SWAT team to enforce Collections of past due student loans with deadly force or other non-violent offenses.
I can only assume that Chief Injustice Roberts and Injustice Alito will soon find that inability to payback the loan on your education constitutes a violent felony as well and is “inherently dangerous” because you have created a situation where the SWAT team might kill you.
This is not America. Our Supreme Court has a prevailing statist homodoxy with no regard for the 4th Amendment or individual liberty. I blame the Harvard/Yale monopoly on the court. Sure we’ve got two Italians, a black, a wise Latina, two lesbians, a clatch of metrosexual crackers and a flip-flopping Father Time but they all have one thing in common – Homodoxy of Education. They all went to the same two schools and have never been exposed to a world outside of those Ivy League enclaves. We’re a country of 300 Million plus people. How can 9 people from two schools possibly be the one size fits all approach when they’ve all mutated from the same intellectual petri dish?
It’s time for a moratorium on Harvard and Yale being anointed to lead our country and the court. The Egghead-ocracy has failed or else we wouldn’t be complaining. We’re living in The Simpson’s “They Saved Lisa’s Brain” episode with deadly results.
Sometimes evading the police is a necessity. Ask any woman traveling alone who has been pulled over by an unmarked police car. Almost anyone would tell her that if she cannot identify the car behind her as a police car that she should continue driving, following the rules of the road, to a well-lit public area. By the standard the Supreme Court has enacted this week, any criminal impersonating a police officer has a new weapon in their rape arsenal provided by our illustrious Supreme Court.
I also take it that now any time a van full of illegal aliens refuses to pull over that they will all be charged with felonies and deported, correct?
Why are our cars designed to travel faster than the speed limit? Why are we even given the choice if the penalty for using it is the loss of your voting rights and ability to get a job? And above all else, why are we surrendering individual freedom to people who have been shown time and time again to fall far from sainthood and abuse it?
The Supreme Court is making police officers the new Priesthood. Instead of Scarlet A’s on our chests they mark Scarlet DUI’s to the sung glory of MADD madrigals. Instead of molesting altar boys, they coerce sexual favors from motorists in exchange for leniency. Not all, but enough to not give the entire profession a pass on infringing on everyone else’s rights.
Our highest court has been compromised and with it our freedom is on hiatus for their lifetime appointments. The Dark Ages of American Liberty.
What a media circus that was, eh?
Being the Six Meat Buffet, we are obligated to say something. Sadly, in my case, that something isn’t meaningful.
But hey, Doug Ross notes that this weiner tossing is nothing new.
Let me be the first to invoke Godwin’s Law. In this case it is absolutely 100% true. I don’t think anything less would accurately describe the phallo-centric and intensely disturbed liberal activists in San Francisco who have produced this anti-circumcision comic book.
What irks me the most is that these people are well documented by Zombie decrying facist America and “fundie” Christians as intolerant people who seek to impose their morality. Yet, these penis obsessed activists are so worked up by their cause, that a little demonziation in full color is somehow OK.
UPDATE: Now this is funny. I just found that Zombie posted on this topic already. The above link to Zombie was to show just how hateful and deranged Liberals can be when they feel someone is intruding on their rights.
Whither thou, young Hemingway. The world’s smallest sitar plays for you.
Father of the Year, Frank Lindh, still doing a bang-up job.
Proud Papa Frank Lindh, whose diseased loin sprang forth the American Taliban, has a full page op-ed in the New York Times today lamenting why his son has not been similarly sprung from the womb of a federal penitentiary upon Osama Bin Laden’s premature evacuation of this living world. As Mr. Lindh is an attorney, he is so highly learned that he cannot distinguish the crimes of Osama bin Laden from those of his son.
So, upon the death of bin Laden, his son should be free as a bird. Right?
Like Ernest Hemingway during the Spanish Civil War, John had volunteered for the army of a foreign government battling an insurgency. He thought he could help protect Afghan civilians against brutal attacks by the Northern Alliance warlords seeking to overthrow the Taliban government. His decision was rash and blindly idealistic, but not sinister or traitorous. He was 20 years old.
We’ll linger on the “20 year old” part in a moment. But like Hemingway, the younger Lindh joined those idealistic Taliban in fighting off those Nazi Afghan warlords and to inure those poor, Afghan civilians’ throats to the loving strangle of the Taliban. If ever there was a moment to mind you’re own effing business, this Old Man in the CIA prison never took advantage.
Before 9/11, the Bush administration was not hostile to the Taliban; barely four months before the attacks it gave $43 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. There was nothing treasonous in John’s volunteering for the Afghan Army in the spring of 2001. He had no involvement with terrorism.
Just this last week, one of our nation’s eternal embarrassments – Jimmy Carter – called us “human rights violators” for not giving aid to North Korea despite their repeated violations of sanctions. Does us providing humanitarian aid to North Korea, or Iraq under Saddam Hussein or any shithole in the world carry the import of our endorsement of the regime in power? This is more than disingenuous. It is, in fact, a damnable lie that the Bush administration gave its blessing to the Taliban so that Failure Frank can lay down his own suppressing fire for Jihad Johnny. The Times editors know this and chose to keep it.
If this is the new standard then we should immediately cease and desist all humanitarian aid to every country whose leader is not as pure as the driven snow.
I was stunned when I learned that John had gone to Afghanistan. It wasn’t our fight; he put himself in harm’s way without his parents’ approval. He did not go into Afghanistan alone; he took his family with him, and we all have suffered for his impulsive choice.
Does a 20 year old need permission from their parents anymore to do anything? I realize Mr. Lindh says he is an attorney so I’ll trust him on that. Hopefully, he’s also aware that the same laws provide Taliban Johnny with the free choice to make his own decisions also mean that we don’t get to prosecute him as the father since Young John’s defects clearly lie with the manufacturer. And shouldn’t he bear some civil and financial responsibility for putting out this defective product without a warning label that ended up killing others?
Now that Bin Laden is dead, I hope President Obama, and the American people, can find it in their hearts to release John, and let him come home. Ten years is enough.
Ten years for his running guns for the Taliban and staying silent when being questioned by the CIA Agents who were murdered in the riot he could have alerted them about is not long enough. He deserves to be shot at dawn every morning.
Look deep into my heart. No.
This month a two tour Iraq War veteran was shot 60 times in his own home by his own government while your piece of shit is kept safe from harm at US taxpayer expense to continue practicing the diseased religion that threatened the life of the former. If ever we were able to trade the two.
Mike Spann is still unavailable for comment. Though I’d hope the Times could find the balls to let his father respond in a full-page OpEd. We already know the answer to that one though.
Just like we know the entire transcript of the conversation between Spann and Lindh shortly before the riot that he could have alerted them to. He sided in silence in favor of the Taliban after September 11th. He should have been executed on the spot.
Thank God the Harold Camping jokes are almost over. They’ve been rare, if non-existent, here and I thank everyone for that.
To that end, Mr. Camping got people talking about their faiths in the living rooms of their neighbors and the eye-rolling, gallows humor of the rare few with jobs left. Singing along to Camping’s Jonathan Edwards cover band.
If it takes the imminent threat of eternal damnation to change the way you treat your fellow man then your faith’s credibility ranks somewhere near Camping’s clairvoyance.
The man’s almost dead. I’m sure he thought he would be dead before this date came and went. When I was 20, I thought I would be dead by 25. It’s why we drink. It’s why we smoke. It’s not that we think we’re indestructible. It’s that we’re painfully aware of how vulnerable we are to a nihilistic degree.
Camping’s no different than Al Gore and the Hot Earthers. I thought all the coastal cities were supposed to be modern day Atlantises by now! How many passes does this guy get? An armada of polar bears on ice floes should be threatening invasion of Southern California by now.
This planet hates us. The story of human history starts with our adaptation and conquest of it and then each other. Every once in a while, it reminds us that we don’t control it. So quit trying. You can’t balance a budget, quit telling us that you can manage a tilted spinning mudball with a Happy Fun Ball center. And quit pretending you’re any different than some nut with a shock of white hair waiving a bible at us and telling us that we’re all doomed if we don’t repent and by $50 LED bulbs.
By my count, Camping’s been an amateur compared to how much money the environmental movement has looted from the Treasury. At least his followers were given a choice.
It has finally come to this. The controversial and sometimes deplorable Ted Rall is speaking out about being black balled (can I say that? Is it racist? Too much, Mr. Matthews?) for attacking Obama with the same intensity he had for Bush.
This is a “read the whole thing” article, but here are some of the juicy bits:
Then Bush came in. And 9/11 happened.
The media gorged on an orgy of psychotic right-wing rhetoric. Flags everywhere. Torture suddenly OK. In a nation where mainstream political discourse was redefined between Dick Cheney on the right and libertarian Bill Maher on the not-as-right, there wasn’t any room in the paper for a left-of-center cartoonist. My business was savaged. Income plunged.
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McCarthyism–blackballing–made a big comeback. I had been drawing a monthly comic strip, “The Testosterone Diaries,” for Men’s Health. No politics. It was about guy stuff: dating, job insecurity, prostate tests, that sort of thing. They fired me. Not because of anything I drew for them. It was because of my syndicated editorial cartoons, which attacked Bush and his policies. The publisher worried about pissing off right-wingers during a period of nationalism on steroids.
Desperate and going broke, I called an editor who’d given me lots of work at the magazines he ran during the 1990s. “Sorry, dude, I can’t help,” he replied. “You’re radioactive.”
I don’t agree that a great national tide moved the media rightward , but Rall’s point is that post-9/11 he became too toxic for mainstream publications.
And here’s where it gets ugly
I didn’t realize how besotted progressives were by Mr. Hopey Changey.
Sure this is nothing a reader of right-of-center bloggers would call new information. But we’re hearing this from Ted Freakin’ Rall!
I appreciate political humor and especially cartoons (check out the sidebar link to Pookies cartoons if you need proof) and have thought Rall to be at the very least honest and consistent and damned funny at his best.
All that to say, I share his disgust and amazement that there is a concerted media effort to build a temple around Obama. For crying out loud, if he can’t mock Obama, one cannot be surprised that no one gets a fair chance to criticize the One.
More:
I’ve heard that from enough “liberal” websites and print publications to consider it a significant trend.
A sample of recent rejections, each from editors at different left-of-center media outlets:
· “I am familiar with and enjoy your cartoons. However the readers of our site would not be comfortable with your (admittedly on point) criticism of Obama.”
· “Don’t be such a hater on O and we could use your stuff. Can’t you focus more on the GOP?”
· “Our first African-American president deserves a chance to clean up Bush’s mess without being attacked by us.”
I have many more like that.
What’s weird is that these cultish attitudes come from editors and publishers whose politics line up neatly with mine. They oppose the bailouts. They want us out of Afghanistan and Iraq. They disapprove of Obama’s new war against Libya. They want Obama to renounce torture and Guantánamo.
Rall concludes with this gem:
Can you image (you probably don’t have to, but I’m too lazy to Google for it), what this journalist had to say about Bush’s judgement on, oh I don’t know, going into Iraq? Equivalent executive actions, 150% different reaction from someone who chose supposedly to bring their intelligence and reason to the public forum.
Maybe, doubtfully but said with sincere hope, Mr. Rall will find that he has been mugged by reality and that liberalism left him.
Isn’t little Billy cute? Remember when we were young and we heard pithy thought-provoking statements for the first time? Gosh, we had no idea how shopworn those statements were but we repeated them because they were so clever?
Then as we grew up we realized that “visualizing world peace” really didn’t mean much of anything. Well I hope Billy can hold onto his wide-eyed wonder as long as he can but I also hope he matures and doesn’t continue to espouse these same witticisms into middle age. That would be just embarrassing.
So we can’t see OBL’s splodeydome because it would inflame the LGF comments threads, the goatbuggering Arab Sodomy Fields Street.
How about if we had him in an open casket funeral provided that the closed half was covered by an American flag? Or, maybe if we dressed his corpse up in women’s panties and threw it on top of a big pile of Abu Ghraib prisoners with Lindy’s dangling cigarette hanging over him?
Since neither photos of flag-draped coffins or prisoner abuse concerned Obama with international backlash, or threats to our troops and ambassadors abroad, this would have seemed like a safe compromise.
And then, in accordance with Islamic practice, we could have strapped a bomb to his remains and tossed him in a Beslan schoolhouse.
/Because of 16 hours of rawmuscleglutular and courageously gritty sleep deliberation!
This lover’s spat between the San Francisco Chronicle and Obama is getting out of hand. In Tennessee, at least one party has to be arrested if the police arrive to a domestic violence call and see evidence of physical injury. It’s the law.
However, it’s doubtful that Eric Holder is going to be flashing his blue lights or that Janet Incompetano will ride to the rescue in her extra-husky black wranglers for this collar.
The White House says a San Francisco Chronicle reporter broke the rules when she put down her pen and picked up a video camera to film a protest. The newspaper says the Obama administration needs to join the 21st century.
The conflict hit the newspaper’s front page Friday with a story about coverage of the protest during President Barack Obama’s speech last week at a private fundraiser.
It highlights the perils that arise when traditional arrangements between news organizations and politicians meet the modern reality that anyone with a smartphone can become a video journalist.
“Modern Day Reality” means a camera? What is this – 1885?
That “traditional arrangement” would be to protect the comfortable in exchange for access. Like Eason Jordan of CNN covering up Saddam Hussein’s atrocities to keep his Baghdad bureau open, every other media outlet in the U.S. has reached a similar arrangement for Barack Hussein so that they can keep snapping their pictures of his head in front of the presidential seal so that it resembles a halo. And to photoshop out the horns as agreed.
I thought when you wanted to Change America ™ that “traditional arrangements” went out the window. What was supposed to be an open marriage has not-so-suddenly become an abusive relationship. Buck up, sugar. He’s still such a catch.
Dan Gillmor, a media critic and head of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, said the White House needs to update the rules for its pool reports to match the realities of 21stcentury reporting.
But he also said newspapers should do more to embrace the new reality that amateurs are capable of providing their own records of events, showing a wider range of perspectives. For example, he said the Chronicle could focus more on providing a platform for amateur video, which would expand the definition of the press pool to anyone with a video camera.
In a Syrian sense, Obama’s the Reformer (like Assad) and this is really the SF Chronicle’s fault anyway. Just look at how they were dressed all with a tape recorder and flip camera. If you’re a reporter, you know not to go out in public all dolled up like that.
Put some ice on it, honey. After all, no one in the media went into journalism to be objective.
The entire news media has a black eye today and they totally earned it.
Hot Air’s got the link to the punk bitches at ThinkProgress. I don’t want to rip their tiny holes with my massive link since under Obamacare I will have to pay for the stitching. And the therapy. The so many hours of therapy.
But blaming tornado victims because their state representatives don’t vote to wreck their economies over non-existent global warming? Well….that’s not Fred Phelps and Pat Robertson all rolled into one, how exactly?
The congressional delegations of these states — Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia, and Kentucky — overwhelmingly voted to reject the science that polluting the climate is dangerous. They are deliberately ignoring the warnings from scientists.
So if you’re just joining us because you’ve spent the last two days pulling your loved ones out from under the bricks of what was once your home – you know in your heart of hearts that you had this coming didn’t you?
I expect no class from the left ever. I’ve tried to show them the error of their ways but they refuse to learn.
Everybody – you have a free pass the next time an earthquake hits San Fransicko, a terrorist hits New York City, or Allah willing, a fire burns Chicago to the ground. Have at it. Let them know that God is punishing them for their AIDS , buggery or whatever square that you don’t like about them that can be hammered into the round hole of reality.
They’re liberals after all. I don’t need any other reason to wish every last one of them dead in the most painful way possible or to gloat over it before they have a chance to be buried.
